Thanks for your comments, copycat. Electroshock is a horror show for sure, especially with children. I remember when I first started working as a psychologist a long time ago, I had a colleague who was a nurse who had worked at Seton Shoal Creek hospital in Austin, which did and still does shock. She remembered seeing adolescent girls lined up to be shocked and wondering what it was that the relevant adults thought they needed to not remember….She of course figured it was their personal history of abuse, so psychiatric abuse to close the door on surfacing of the other.

And then on top of that, we know that with a two year statute of limitations, psychiatry is pretty well protected from litigation by shock survivors as it usually takes at least that long for folks to be in good enough shape, and through enough of the terror, to consider suing the docs or institutions.